Track brace and gauge



Aug. 2,1927. 7,919

v. o. SAMPSON 1 TRACK BRACE AND GAUGE Filed Nov. 5, 1926 a Q/ i a 1+ 3 ME! @JILMEG Mul a ,5 9 8 5 J i 5 5 ya. fi filENToR WITNESS: ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 2, 1927,

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VICTOR O. SAMPSON, OF WOODLAND, WASHINGTON.

TRACK BRACE AND GAUGE.

Application filed November havin laterall extendiirlates desi ned.

to be received in the fishing spaces ofthe switch rails and secured to said rails, and further wherein the throw bar for the switch rod forms a means for connecting the inner sections of the said rod but which throw bar is insulated from the said switch rod so as tonot short circuit the electric current when the switch rails are employed as conductors. To the attainment of the above broadly stated objects and many others which will present themselves as the nature of the invention is better understood, the improvement further resides in certain other novel features of construction, combination and operative association of parts, a satisfactory embodiment of which is disclosed by the accompanying drawings In the drawings:

Figure 1 is an elevation of the improvement, the switch rai'ls being in section.

Figure 2 is a top plan view thereof.

Figure 3 is a detail sectional view on the line 3-3 of Figure 2.

The switch rails 1 have received in their inner fishing spaces and bolted to the webs thereof, plates 2. formed with an inwardly directed shank 3, the said shanks having their outer portions round in cross section and the said outer portions are threaded, as at 4. The threaded portions of the shanks 3 have transverse openings 1f therethrough. These threaded shanks are engaged by the threaded bores of turn buckles 5. The turn buckles are provided with elongatedaligning slots 6, and when the turn buckles are adjusted on the shanks 3 there are passed through these slots and through the openings 4 in the said shanks, holding pins 7. The opposite threads in the bore, at the inner ends of the Each plate 2 is centrally 5, 1926. Serial No. 146,500.

turn-buckles are engaged by similarly hand pitched threads on the cross sectionally rounded ends of members 8. The members 8 have their outer ends widened and flattened, as at 9. The threaded ends of the members 8 have transverse openings 10 therethrough' to align with the elongated slots in" the turn-buckles, and when the turn buckles are adjusted on the members 8 there are passed through the said slots and openings holding pins 11.

The straight andflattened ends 9 of the members 8 rest on a plate 130f insulating material, and the plate 13 rests on the throw bar 14: for the switch points. Bolt members 15 engaged by nuts 16, hold the ends 9 of the members 8 connected to the plate 13 and to the throw bar 14. The bolts pass through insulator sleeves that are let in the bolt openings in the ends 9 of the members 8'and th members 18, and 14.

The simplicity of my construction and the advantages thereof will, it is thought, be perfectly apparent to those skilled in theartto which such'invention relates when the foregoingdescription is read in connection with the accompanying drawings, it. being, 'of course, understood that I do not wish to be limited to the precise details of construction herein set forth and hold myself entitled to make such changes therefrom, as fairly fall within the scope of what I claim.

Having described the invention, I claim: 1. A combined gauge brace and connecting rod for switch points, comprising threaded members having plates on; their outer ends which arereceived in the inner fishing spaces of switch rails, and are bolted fishing spaces of switch rails, andare bolted to the webs thereof, a turn buckle screwed on each of the said threaded members, removable means locking the turn buckles on the members, flat members having rounded and I threadedv ends also engaged by the turn buckles, means for adjustably locking the turn buckles on said members, a plate of insulating material on which the fiat ends of the lastmentioned members rest, a throw bar underlying said plate and securing means 10 connecting the throw bar to the plate and to the ends of the said members.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

VICTOR O. SAMPSON. 

